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Giovanni Antonio Laveglia

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Giovanni Antonio Laveglia/LaVeglia (1653 – after 1710) was an Italian painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, active in the Piedmont.

Biography

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He was born in Carmagnola to father painter, Pietro Laveglia, (1625-1675) who had emigrated to Asti from Paris. A canvas at the Civic Gallery of the Palazzo Mazzetti, depicting Christ and the Apostles on the shores of the Borbore (circa 1671) includes a distant view of the town of Asti.[1]

In Bartoli's Notizia about artworks, he takes notice of a Laveglia d'Asti, who was a painter of quadratura in the church of San Martino of Astia.[2]

In 1677, Giovanni Antonio married Lucrezia Maria Fariano in Asti.[3] In 1708, Giovanni Carlo Aliberti married Giovanni Antonio's daughter.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Palazzo Mazzetti collections.
  2. ^ Notizia delle Pitture, Sculture, ed Architetture d'Italia, section on il Piemonte. by Francesco Bartoli Page 98.
  3. ^ Iconografia sacra a Manduria: repertorio delle opere pittoriche, by Massimo Guastella.
  4. ^ Notizie degli intagliatori con osservazioni critiche, Volume 5, by Giovanni Gori Gandellini, Luigi de Angelis, page 111.